By: Joe Gould as well as Aaron Mehta
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U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, chair of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats as well as Capabilities, introduced legislation Midweek to gear upward the regime for the national safety demeanor upon of artificial intelligence. In this Sept. 28, 2017, photo, Hanson Robotics' flagship robot Sophia, a lifelike robot powered past times artificial intelligence, holds an apple tree inwards Hong Kong. Sophia is a creation of the Hong Kong-based startup working on bringing humanoid robots to the marketplace. (AP/Kin Cheung) WASHINGTON — Warning artificial intelligence volition revolutionize warfare, a telephone commutation House lawmaker has opened the pod bay doors to legislation aimed at preparing for the threat posed past times intelligent machines.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, chair of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats as well as Capabilities, introduced legislation on AI Wednesday, which she hopes to add together into this year’s defence strength policy bill. Her pecker would prepare a commission to review advances inwards AI, seat the nation’s AI needs as well as brand recommendations to organize the federal regime for the threat.
Stefanik’s legislation comes every bit US officials are increasingly worried almost China making a major government-led force on AI, as well as it lines upward amongst calls from the military machine AI infinite for America to launch an all-of-government approach to the problem. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told lawmakers terminal calendar month that AI is making him enquiry what demeanor upon AI volition get got on the nature of war, as well as the Pentagon plans to increase AI-related investments over the side past times side ii years.
“Artificial Intelligence is a constantly developing engineering scientific discipline that volition probable touching every human face of our lives,” Stefanik, R-N.Y., said inwards a statement. “AI has already produced many things inwards role today, including spider web search, object recognition inwards photos or videos, prediction models, self-driving cars, as well as automated robotics. It is critical to our national safety but besides to the evolution of our broader economic scheme that the the States becomes the global leader inwards farther developing this cutting border technology.”
Stefanik’s proposed national safety commission on artificial intelligence would address as well as seat America’s national safety needs amongst abide by to AI. It would besides expect at ways to save America’s technological edge, foster AI investments as well as research, as well as constitute information standards as well as opened upward incentives to portion data.
The pecker besides aims to air ethical considerations related to AI as well as machine learning, as well as seat as well as empathize the risks of AI advances nether the police line of armed conflict as well as international humanitarian law.
Former Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work, right away amongst the Center for a New American Security, has said the fourth dimension is correct for about course of education of national push, which should include consideration of what he termed a “national AI agency.”
“One of the things that the national AI means should exercise is to address this problem: How exercise nosotros address IP? How exercise nosotros address combining all of the strengths of our DoD labs as well as our engineering scientific discipline sector for the betterment of the country? This is across all things, inwards medicine, inwards finance, inwards transportation. And yes, hopefully, inwards defense,” Work said at the March fifteen launch of a novel CNAS artificial intelligence working group.
But for that to happen, “we’re going to necessitate something, assist from Congress, either a caucus or somebody who takes this every bit a leadership position,” Work cautioned. “To get got a national response, y'all get got to get got a national force from above.”
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